There was once a professor of law who said to his students. When you are fighting a case, if you have facts on your side hammer them into the jury, and if you have the law on your side hammer it into the judge. But if you have neither the facts nor the law, asked one of his listeners? Then hammer the hell into the table, answered the professor.

A God that can be understood is no God. Who can explain the Infinite in words?

There are two good things in life - freedom of thought and freedom of action.

A woman will always sacrifice herself if you give her the opportunity. It is her favourite form of self indulgence.

As if a woman ever loved a man for his virtue.

I never spend more than one hour in a gallery. That is as long as one's power of appreciation persists.

Most people are such fools that it is really no great compliment to say that someone is above the average.